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Roofcombs


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Uxmal
Dovecote and Pyramid of the Old Woman

 1946. Hypothetical reconstuction drawing; looking south along South Acropolis, past Dovecoat Group to South Temple.
Watercolor drawing by Tatiana Proskouriakoff, published in An Album of Maya Architecture, 1946. Scanned from 35mm slide of the original watercolor drawing. Reproduced Courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.
Detail of reconstruction drawing at left, showing original shape of roofcomb and location of stucco figures and other roofcomb ornaments.
Watercolor drawing by Tatiana Proskouriakoff, published in An Album of Maya Architecture, 1946. Scanned from 35mm slide of the original watercolor drawing. Reproduced Courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.
Detail of reconstruction drawing at left, showing proposed roofcomb on building behind at right.
Watercolor drawing by Tatiana Proskouriakoff, published in An Album of Maya Architecture, 1946. Scanned from 35mm slide of the original watercolor drawing. Reproduced Courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.
Looking northeast along south face of the Dovecote. The roofcomb originally had 9 stepped, perforated, gable-shaped sections.
photo Jan. 2003 (24mm lens)
South face of the roofcomb seen from top of South Temple. This photo looks along the longest axis at Uxmal, looking north to the Dovecote Group and to the North Group near the center, distance (building near the horizon is a modern hotel).
photo Jan. 2001
Looking down from Great Pyramid to southeast corner of Dovecote; astonishingly preserved for so vulnerable a structure.
photo Jan. 2001
1st gable-shaped section (counting west-to-east), its left side collapsed.
photo Jan. 2001
 2nd (largely collapsed) and 3rd gable-shaped sections (counting west-to-east), showing projecting tenon which originally held stucco figure.
photo Jan. 2001
 4th gable-shaped section (west-to-east), showing projecting tenon which presumably originally held stucco figure.
photo Jan. 2001
Pyramid of the Old Woman. Detail of official INAH plaque, showing small remaining portion of roofcomb and proposed form of entire roofcomb.
photo Jan. 2002
Pyramid of the Old Woman. Back (east face) of roofcomb, with South Temple, Great Pyramid, and Governor's Palace in distance.
photo Jan. 2003

Back (east face) of roofcomb (drawing at far left shows opposite, west, face), largely collapsed, showing varying size slots.
photo Jan. 2003 (24mm lens)

 

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